Why do we need both - export maps AND -fvisibility=hidden/__attribute__((visibility("default")))

[David Holmes]

On 13/02/2014 5:26 PM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>
> On 2014-02-05 19:09, Volker Simonis wrote:
>> If there are any more/other comments on this topic I'll be highly
>> interested.
>
> You can count on me having lots of opinion on build issues. ;-)
>
> I'd like to get rid of the hard-coded map files completely, both in
> hotspot and jdk. This can be done without loss of functionality. How?
> Because we can generate them on the fly at build time, using information
> provided by the source code.

Does that account for the dynamically generated symbols used by the SA?

David

> Note that the exported functions are prefixed by the macro JNIEXPORT. We
> can locate all functions that have this prefix and write them to a map
> file. This can be done, and was indeed the way we solved things back in
> the JRockit JVM. The technique we used there was to grep for "JNIEXPORT"
> and check for a symbol name (as provided by nm). We had rules requiring
> that JNIEXPORT was to be written on the same line as the function name,
> or the line before that. So we could do like "grep -A 1 -e JNIEXPORT"
> and then cross-reference for names extracted by nm. Not exactly a formal
> semantic parsing, but it was efficient and worked very well. I believe
> we can do something very similar for hotspot and jdk.
>
> Then again, if we could get rid of maps completely, by using visibility
> and not linking statically with the standard libs, that would be even
> better. :-)
>
> /Magnus